Back to Blogging! New House Pictures and other updates!

It has been FOREVER!! The worst blogger ever award goes to this girl. The wedding plans and house construction took 95% of my time, so now that both are over I can get back to posting. I thought I would post some updated photos of the house since we are all moved in. We moved in on Valentines Day and it was amazing! All the time and work that went into the house was SO worth it and we are both so happy to finally be together. The wedding is over as well and it was such an amazing, beautiful day and I could not have asked for more. Still no pictures, but I will be posting some taken by guests at the wedding :). 

So here we go with some house pictures. I got a new camera and I am still trying to figure how to upload and edit photos so these are kind of out of order but oh well. 

The pool 

Outdoor living area

These are just some teaser photos of my closet. I plan on doing an entire post on my new closet once I am completely settled in it. I still have jewelry and some clothing in boxes. 

My jewelry drawer

Shoes. Duh :)

Front doors 

Some outside pics 

 Our street

The turquoise shutters might be my favorite part of the outside of the house

Bar in the kitchen where we house the millions of wine glasses we received for the wedding which I love!

Dresser in our master bedroom. We plan on removing those knobs and putting in vintage looking crystal knobs. 

Bathroom

Master bathroom shower

Vanity. Sorry so messy haha 

Shane's den

Master bedroom. I LOVE our bed. 

 I don't have a photo of all the rooms here, but I plan on doing a post on our master bedroom and bath and then the other rooms in the house once they are more decorated.

Stay tuned for more blog posts and some wedding photos! :)

Thanks for reading!

xo, Alina

Updated House Pictures!

The house is moving so fast from when I last posted so I thought I would get some more photos up. 

Front entry way

Font porch

I thought this was the coolest photo of inside. 

Master bathroom shower

Shane's study

Hallway to the laundry room

Master bath with the tub deck put in

The laundry room

Starting the summer kitchen

Guest suite bathroom where the vanity and toilet will go

Guest suit bathroom shower

Living room entertainment wall

Summer kitchen again 

Guest Suite closets on either side and the middle is where a dresser and tv will go. Thats Shane's mom and our awesome builder :)

Our garage door!!! 

Our actual garage door will have windows at the top for some light. 

Summer kitchen! Love the hood it looks so cool! The tv will go to the right of the hood as well and then we are going to set up a nice seating area around there. 

Front view of the hood and Shane's mom 

They have finished sealing the roof and everything

Bad picture of the master bedroom

and the BEST part of the whole master bedroom MY CLOSET!!! Love my closet! 

So as of now they have put in all the electrical, plumbing, duct work and insulation and I think on Saturday they were starting to put the windows in. I haven't been by the house in a few days but I am going to stop by tomorrow after work. Dry wall should be going up fairly soon and I SOOO excited for that. We might have a little delay because of cabinet orders but the house is still on track to be completely done early February. We have started picking out the outside paint colors, shutter colors, and inside walls colors which is exciting but hard. I have a couple videos of the house I wanted to post but for whatever reason blogger will not let me so I am going to post them on my Instagram. If you want to see the videos check out my IG. Username: alinamsmith

Alright well thats all for now :)

Thanks for reading! 

xo, Alina

Building a House AKA THE MOST STRESSFUL THING IN THE WORLD!

As many of you know from some previous posts my fiancé and I are building a house in Naples. I honestly had NO IDEA what I was getting myself into when we embarked on this journey. It is a million times harder than planning a wedding. I have been so decisive about what I do and don't want for the wedding but with the house one day I like something and 3 days later I have changed it to something else. Shane has been on internship ALL summer and will be back at school this fall so its has been REALLY hard doing this on my own. Thank god for my future mother-in-law who has been AMAZING during this entire process. She literally knows everything about building and decorating houses and without her I would be lost and probably crying my eyes out after every appointment. After some long hours and looking at tons of magazines and trips back and forth to here and there I think we have some final FINAL decisions on things. Just wanted to share some pictures of things for the house and vent a little. As hard as this all has been when you find that one piece of tile that matches everything else and makes it all work it is 100% worth it!

So here we goooo

This is what CHAOS looks like. Carpet, wood, tile, paint = OVERLOAD

Ok for whatever reason the floors look different than they do in person but trust me they are to die for!!! These floors will be throughout almost the entire house except in the bedrooms and bathrooms. We found these floors at Southwest floor design in Naples. 

y'all have NOOOO idea how much work we put into this guest suite. I picked out the tile floors, shower walls, and shower floors for our master bathroom in like 10 minutes it was a piece of cake. But this guest suite has been so hard! This bathroom will also be the powder bath for people at the house to use and for anytime we have guests staying over and I really wanted the shower accent to be very dramatic. I picked out the shower wall accent first and we picked everything else for the bathroom around that piece. That is dedication! We went through 5-8 different pieces of tile flooring trying to find something that would match the shower accent since it will also be the shower walls. Finally today my FMIL found the tile and it was so meant to be I was doing cartwheels. Not really but I was sooooo happy!

Below I put all the pieces identifications haha 

The shower floors for the guest suite is a tumbled marble and it is amaze balls {side note my momma said amaze balls the other day.. I died} and we are using it in the master shower as well for the floors. 

All the tile for the house we are getting from DeMarco's in Naples. 

Now onto the "kids" bathrooms. This kind of just fell together and I love it. Agreeable grey is the possible cabinet color and with the shower accent piece and the tile floors/shower walls I think it will be gender neutral but still coastal. 

Do NOT even ask me about paint colors. All I know is I want the house to have varying shades of blue and turquoise. Why are there so many darn shades of the same color. Its exhausting. All of this is really. 

Shane and I are so blessed and so lucky to be able to build a home together don't get me wrong but all of this + planning a wedding + looking a for a job + a part time job + an internship I feel like I have barely any time to do anything but those things. Okay I guess that is enough complaining for one blog post haha. Let me know what y'all think! :) 

 xo, Alina